Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Event Calendar

The Glyptotek was founded by Brewer Carl Jacobsen, J.C. Jacobsen’s only son, who amassed a large private art collection. The Glyptotek was inaugurated in 1897 as a gift to Copenhagen municipality.

Exhibition, 2 September – 31 December

BREWER J.C. JACOBSEN 200 YEARS

The Danish artist Jesper Christiansen (born 1955) has completed three large paintings for a room on the theme ‘Souvenirs of travel’ in the Glyptotek’s collection of early 19th century Danish art. The pictures concentrate on three locations ‒ Italy, France and Denmark – and provide a commentary on the times of J.C. Jacobsen, extending from small city of Copenhagen during the ‘Golden Age’ to the enterprising modernism of industrialism. It’s about where you are, and the lines that radiate out into the world from there – on journeys, in dreams or in memory.